RESULTS: Monday Night Raw Apr. 7, 1997

As the camera cuts to a commercial break, we see Stone Cold Steve Austin and Brian Pillman huddled around a pay phone in the back. The camera then fades to commercial.

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Brian Pillman's voice is heard.

Pillman: Turn on the f'n LIGHTS! Turn 'em ON!

(The lights come on and we are looking at the Raw-buttal area. Brian Pillman is standing in the area with a 'Free Sabrina Savage' t-shirt on. The sounds of a struggle are heard off stage. Pillman looks and sees Stone Cold dragging in Dok Hendriks by the collar. Stone Cold drags him in and lets him stand up holding the microphone.)

Dok: Uhhh.. can I ask what's going on? Is this an interview?

Austin: Well I certainly didn't bring you out here for your f'n FREEBIRD autograph! Now hold up the microphone and do you job, you greasy-haired idiot!

Pillman: C'mon Dok! Do your job!

Dok: (adjusting his jacket, standing straighter) Welll... let's talk about your WrestleMania match against the Hart Foundation.

Pillman: NO! We're going to talk about the Empire!

Dok: Alright! Alright! On Superstars, we saw a little... well... disagreement in the Empire! Gilbert got fire-tabbed... he hinted at a mock-takeover... he seemed mad. Austin, you came down and calmed everybody down. What's going on?

Austin: The bottom line IS, the Empire can't work together anymore, because ain't a one of them that knows their ass from a HOLE in the ground.

Pillman: The Emperor is a COMPLETE idiot! There WAS going to be a mock-takeover. But Gilbert is too much of a wuss to be able to handle a little fire-tab to make it all look real! Now the cats out of the bag... and it doesn't look like it's going to be so 'MOCK' afterfall!!

Dok: WHAT?! But you were just out there helping him tonight!

Austin: You better start paying attention a little better, before I knock your eyes out of your socket and set-em at ringside so you can get a BETTER LOOK! Me and Brian here went down there to take care of that piece of trash, Derrick Stardom... who ain't worthy enough to lace my boots on the best day of his life.

Pillman: Stone Cold and myself just got off the phone with Sabrina Savage. We've discussed business... and me... and Stone Cold Steve Austin are DEFECTING from the Empire to join up with Sabrina Savage!

Dok: WHAT!?

Austin: It's REAL simple, Hendriks. There ain't no more Empire that's got Stone Cold and Time Bomb. It's me... Pillman and Sabrina... ON OUR OWN!

Pillman: That arguing you saw on Superstars wasn't the ONLY time you've seen it! It's all the time behind the scenes. And me and Stone Cold are tired of calming everybody down! We're trying to get into this lousy federation and Taylor and the Heat are just being distractions to our goal!

Austin: The Giant is whining because he lost. The Heat are whining 'cause they wanted Stone Cold to come down and chapperone their little fight with the Legion of Trash and help 'em win.

Pillman: Then they bring in that scrub the Super Machine and try to pass him off as the next Intercontinental Champion? The Empire USED to have class. We had athletes. We were the GREATEST stable in the WWF. But now, we got a bunch of scrubs.

Austin: Gilbert even wants that ass-kisser Diamond Dallas Page in the Empire. That curly haired bastard is nothing but a rip-off artist for stealing the Stone Cold Stunner, and if he got in my face, I'd knock the taste out of his mouth and re-arrange his anatomy so bad... that the only ass he could kiss again would be his OWN, because he couldn't bend no other WAY.

Pillman: Stables are OLD news in the WWF now. It's every man, woman and child fending for themselves. The nWo is finished, the Horsemen are gone, the Suntastics... if they ever WERE a stable... are destroyed and the Empire has crumbled!

Austin: The bottom line IS... that me and Brian F'N Pillman are on our own now. And with Sabrina Savage working the contracts and makin' Piper's life a livin' HELL with all her knowledge of business, it's only a matter of time before we preach Austin 3:16 on a daily basis around here.

Dok: Uhhh... I think we gotta wrap this up!

Austin: NO! SHUT UP! I do what I want to do.

Dok: Can I ask... are you going AFTER the other Empire members?

Pillman: We're going after WHOEVER gets in our way! Whether it's the DRUNK Foundation again... the Badd Boy Derrick Stardom... or that hair-dyed Roxanne!

Dok: What? You wouldn't hit a woman! You already DID!!!! How do you think Heart Attack feels?

Pillman: LIKE THIS....

(Pillman swings his crutch, but stops it just shy of Dok's ribs. Pillman starts laughing hysterically as Dok backs up in fear.)

Austin: Now get your piece of trash behind out of here. This interview is OVER!!

(Dok backs away leaving Austin and Pillman in the area. Austin stares daggers at the camera, while Pillman laughs maniacally.)